[EM] STV's rejection: it's "not a defect, it's a feature!"

[Bart Ingles]

David Catchpole wrote:
> 
> I like to liken the Approval/Everything else argument to that between
> Laissez Faire economists and everything else. If the market for votes was
> free and everybody had equal information and was supremely rational, then
> approval would be the laissez faire method of choice.


Thanks, Catchy!  That's quite an endorsement, coming from a self-avowed
socialist!

As for access to information, every method I have seen so far allows the
voter to make use of strategic information as well as candidate
information.  In U.S. election, polling data and information on
candidate spending, etc. seems if anything to be more readily available
than the kind of in-depth information on candidate positions and
qualifications that would be needed to accurately rank 50 or so
candidates in order of preference.

As you may recall, I didn't start out on this list as an approval
advocate.